John mcinnes



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J. MGINNES.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 374,268. Patented Dec. 6, 1887.

WITNESSEE Y V INVENTUR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MOINNES, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,263, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed October 29, 1887. Serial No. 253,760. (No model.)

- which may be readily secured to the neck of abottle and which may be made to fit differently-sized necks.

The invention consists in the various fea-' tures of improvement, more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear view of my improved bottle-stopper. Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line a: m, Fig. 2.

The letter a represents a ring or yoke having disconnected outwardly-bent ends to form the perforatedlugs a. Theselu gs are engaged by the hook-shaped ends b" of a U-shaped spring-wire, b, the shanks of which diverge toward the bottom, and which is bent at the top into a loop, b. A slide, 0, straddles both shanks of the spring-wire. gaged bya loop, cl, of cap 01. The cork e is secured to this cap at by means of a screw, f, projecting downwardly from cap (I and enter ing the cork.

In use the slide a is moved upward to permit the shanks of the spring-wire to diverge at the bottom, and to thus open the ring a. This ring is then slipped over the neck A of The loop I) is en the bottle, after which theslide isnioved down sufficiently far to rigidly clamp the device in place. It will be seen that the thicker the neck of the bottle the less is the slide to be moved down.

In opening the bottle the stopper is thrown back around the upper hinge, b d, and the springwire is turned down around the hinge a b. Thus the stopper is entirely out of the way when the bottle is used.

\Vhat I claim is 1. Thecombination of an open ring, a,with a U shaped wire, b, and with a stopper, the wire being pivotal] y connected to both the ring and the stopper, and with a slide, 0, that straddles the wire, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of open ring a, having perforated lugs a, with the U-shaped wire b, having loop b and hooked ends If, that engage lugs a, and with cap cl, having loop d, that engages loop b, and with the slide 0, that straddles wire 12, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of a spring-wire with an open ring and with a cap, both pivotally connected tothe spring-wire, and with a slide, 0, the cap being provided with a screw, f, to engage cork e, substantially as specified.

JOHN MOINN ES.

\Vitnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, WILLIAM PARTINGTON. 

